Oil is loaded offshore and taken directly to refineries; gas is transported via the Statpipe pipeline to mainland Norway.

[2] A regional grid of reflection seismology lines showed the Brent structural trend extended into the area, forming a "large northeast-trending and northwesterly tilted" (at 6-8 degrees) Fault block, partly eroded on the east flank, with Jurassic and Cretaceous shales trapping any oil in the Middle Jurassic Brent deltaic and Late Triassic-Early Jurassic Statfjord fluvial sandstones originating from the Kimmeridge Clay Formation.

[10] but more than 60% have been produced already, leaving modest oil reserves in the order of 300 million barrels (48×10^6 m3), so the focus will now be placed on extracting the associated natural gas that had been re-injected into the field all over its life.

The spill, estimated at 21,750 barrels (approx 3,000 metric tons), was the country's second largest ever, according to Norway's oil safety authority.

The accident happened in rough weather while the tanker Navion Britannica was loading oil from a storage buoy, according to the operator Equinor.